Category: News

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank

NASA, W. Hrybyk

Want Lightspeed Internet? You need NASA’s integrated-photonics modem

03/02/2016

NASA engineers tapped to build first integrated-photonics modem ...

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Al Jourgenson Signs to Nuclear Blast for Surgical Meth Machine album

02/02/2016

Ministry's Al Jourgenson announces first release from his new project Surgical Meth Machine...

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lego-robot

Swiss Scientists Beat Off Rivals to Develop ‘Soft Gripper’

01/02/2016

Technologists in Lausanne develop robotic fingers with a gentle touch ...

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motorcycle

Edging It, Or Not. The One Small Step that Stops Teens Taking Risks

31/01/2016

Teenagers are notorious risktakers, but new research suggests there is a way to calm them down. Report...

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Exercise Alone Won’t Help You Slim! But what DOES work?

30/01/2016

Why you won't lose weight by exercising constantly, and what you can do about it...

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secret

Psst, Keep this to yourself: How to Expose Massive Conspiracies

28/01/2016

Equation shows that large-scale conspiracies would quickly reveal themselves. But maybe that's just What They Want You To Think! Or not. Perhaps. ...

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Thwack! Feel the Flow with Pressure-Sensitive Rubber Gloves

27/01/2016

More than mere Marigolds, Tokyo University researchers develop pressure-sensitive rubber gloves for medical workers....

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bacteria

Wanna Swap some Cells? Get Some Acoustic Tweezers in Your Handbag

26/01/2016

Acoustic tweezers provide much needed pluck for 3-D bioprinting. But what do they do? Report...

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Early Kinship and Community Displayed at Newly-Examined Spanish Megalithic Tomb

25/01/2016

Neolithic megalithic tomb in Spain comprehensively examined for the first time ...

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curtains

Zap Those Clouds Away: Smart Windows Get Cheaper

24/01/2016

Soft colour composites may offer a cheaper alternative to smart windows. MIT researcher explains how. ...

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kale

Fry, not Boil, for a Healthier Diet. WHUT?!

23/01/2016

Deep-fried sprouts, anyone? Vegetables fried with olive oil have more healthy properties than boiled ones ...

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friends, social media

Real Life or Social Media – How Many Friends is Too Many?

22/01/2016

Are you really my friend? Social media isn't the same as real life, but a new study suggests the same skills apply. How does it all work?...

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Gecko and An

Why Spiderman Can’t Climb Walls

20/01/2016

There is a size limit to sticky footpads as an evolutionary solution to climbing...

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Eat Your Way to Better Sleep

19/01/2016

Diet-based recommendations might be used to improve sleep in those with poor sleep quality...

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Whipworm, Roundworm, Parasites. What did the Romans ever do for us?

17/01/2016

Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanization actually spread parasites ...

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supernova

What’s 570 billion times brighter than our sun? The Millisecond Magnetar

16/01/2016

Astronomers study what may be the most powerful supernova ever seen...

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Ink Levels Low? Fill it up with Rust! 3D Printing Advances

14/01/2016

New rapid method expands the types of metals, alloys, and architectures that can be additively manufactured...

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Sweat it Out. Cracking Lower Back Pain

13/01/2016

Exercise associated with prevention of low back pain ...

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But How Do You Get the Lid Off? Mesoglue Revolutionises Nano-Stickiness

12/01/2016

A glue that binds metal to metal to glass to you-name-it, sets at room temperature, and requires little pressure to seal...

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ant

Good goods: Why Small Males Might Be More Attractive

11/01/2016

Small males have more sex appeal, new research shows ...

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cancer surgery agent

Glowing With Health – Fluorescent Agent Helps Cancer Surgery

10/01/2016

Injectable Agent Illuminates Cancer During Surgery...

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poker machines

Risky Gambling or Shrewd Business? Does Your Brain Know the Difference?

09/01/2016

Risky gambling choices are influenced by a single brain connection ...

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sandals

Smug-Shaming, or Why We Love to Hate Hippies

07/01/2016

When you don't seek out ethical products, you denigrate those who do...

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jazz piano

Mind of Blue. The Neuroscience of the Minor Key

06/01/2016

Study of jazz pianists finds 'happy' and 'sad' music evoke different neural patterns...

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road arrows

Did You Really Want to do That? Free Will Gets Computer Analysed

05/01/2016

Berlin researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making...

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Gravity

Guaranteed New Year Weight-Loss, Effortlessly

04/01/2016

Astronomers find new way to measure the pull of gravity at the surface of distant stars...

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straw

GERROFFF MOI LAAAANDD! Prehistoric Farmers Weren’t As Important as We Thought

03/01/2016

New research shows same growth rate for farming and non-farming prehistoric people ...

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Machine Intelligence Can Save the Planet. But do we trust it (not to kill us)?

02/01/2016

Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world's direst problems?...

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Weed or Wine – What’s Your Poison?

01/01/2016

No easy answers in UW study of legal marijuana's impact on alcohol use ...

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A Bounteous New Year to All (but save it ’til you’re hungry)

31/12/2015

Let hunger be your guide. Eating when we are not hungry is bad for our health...

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